She hasn't won this election: MP Nadine Dorries is first to be evicted from I'm A Celebrity jungle

Tory MP Nadine Dorries became the first person to be evicted from I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! after 12 days in the jungle.

Dorries, who was suspended from the party for going on the ITV show, was voted out by the public and was hugged by fellow camp members

Learning of her eviction, she told hosts Ant and Dec she had had a 'fascinating experience.'

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And she's out: Nadine Dorries has been evicted from the I'm A Celebrity jungle

She said: 'I actually came here self-important for a few days but I'm not now.

'I needed that missile and I think all MPs need that. I came from a council estate and never thought I was like that but I was. I'm not now.'

When asked by presenters Ant and Dec if she felt she had achieved her aim in raising awareness of issues, she said: "I don't know what people have seen but I have had some fascinating conversations in there. It's been a fascinating experience.

Big hugs: The evicted MP was greeted by partner Chris

'I think it is important that MPs realise that you need to go where the public go. More people vote on X Factor and I'm A Celebrity than they do in the general elections. MPs need to go where people vote.'

She predicted David Haye would win with Helen Flanagan and Eric Bristow in the final three, and said she had guessed she would be the first to leave.

She said: 'I'm not disappointed at being the first, especially when you're starving. I kind of expected it actually. I don't think the public actually understand how hard and how difficult it is down there.

'The effect it has on your body when you're down there with three teaspoons of rice a day is hard, hard, hard.'

Missed you: Nadine hugs her partner as she looks forward to a decent meal and a showdown with her bosses

She was suspended as a Tory MP after flying to the jungle without getting permission from David Cameron or informing senior party leaders.

She angered colleagues and constituents by appearing on the show, but insisted she would use it as a platform to promote politics and engage the electorate.

Before going on I'm A Celebrity, she said: 'It can't be that hard' and then went on to fail three challenges.

Asked if she regretted those words, she replied: 'There's like this massive adrenaline rush and your brain's screaming No and you have to overcome it but sometimes I can't.'

Unapologetic: a well-rested and glamorous looking Nadine gave her first post-show interview on Daybreak on Thursday Morning

On eating lamb's testicle and ostrich anus, she said: "I would never have thought I would eat any of those things in a million years.'

The politician added she was worried about her campmate Helen Flanagan, who she described as an intelligent woman.

She added: 'I was concerned her confidence as a young woman was being being bashed to death. I tried to change her motivation and had a big chat with her.'

'It's been a fascinating experience. I actually came here self-important for a few days, but I'm not now.'

On Thursday morning in her first post-show interview the suspended MP said she has an office set up in her hotel room in Australia and is already back at work.

A frosty reception back home? She has angered her fellow MPs with the decision to enter the jungle

She told Daybreak she 'worked right up to the moment', she headed down under.

She said: 'I've already been back at work actually.

'What is overnight to you, as soon as I got out of the jungle I was straight back to work... some of the flak that has been thrown at me I'm afraid just isn't true.

'My office has been manned, my staff have been working and I am back at work already.'

The politician went on the offensive after leaving the jungle.

She said lots of MPs take between four and six weeks off and do not have the whip suspended from them as she had as punishment for heading out during parliamentary time.

She said: 'I think that what happened was that the powers that be in my party thought I was going to use my time in the jungle to talk about them and not about the issues that concerned and interested me.'

Nervewracking: The campmates wait to be told who goes

And then there were two: Eric Bristow and Nadine waited to find out which one was staying in the jungle

VIDEO: Highlight reel showcases Nadine's best and worst moments

She added she had previously not taken a day off during parliamentary time in seven and a half years at Westminster.

'I did my surgeries right up until the minute I left and only one person has booked in for next month's surgery.

'So it's quite interesting some of the flak that's been thrown at me, just, I'm afraid isn't true. My office is being manned, my staff have been working hard and I’m back at work already.'

Dorries also said it 'was an interesting turn' that she had been suspended from the Conservative Party following her decision to appear on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Hugging it out: Nadine is comforted by her campmates following her eviction

She explained: 'Yes, well that’s kind of an interesting term really...I’m in Australia it’s impossible for me to vote, so the whip hasn’t been withdrawn, it’s been suspended.

And I find that interesting because there are a lots of MPs who take lots of weeks off during parliamentary time and no whip has been suspended, so I think what happened is that maybe the powers that be in my Party thought I was going to use my time in the jungle to talk about them and not about the issues that concerned me and interested me and I think it was a kind of cautionary measure.'

Dorries also said that Andrew Mitchell never gave her permission to appear on I'm A Celebrity. 'But he did give me permission to have the month off,' she said.

She added:'I find it quite disappointing now, that now the spotlight came onto this, that he has chosen, and particularly after all the support I gave him during his own particular troubles recently, that he's tried to be clever with words. It epitomises politicians.'